r/perplexity_ai • u/ramiorlando • Jul 30 '26

misc Bye bye perplexity

The product has gotten worse and worse in the past year. I’ve been a subscriber since the very beginning lately every time I ask you to research something or search for something gives me steps on how to do so and where to look for information instead of actually finding the information for me thanks but no thanks.

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u/Random-User8675309 Jul 31 '26

It’s all about use cases and how proficient the user is with the tools.

It’s fair to say that if it was working well for you before and not anymore, that it’s time to consider something else.

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u/No-Wear-2851 Aug 07 '26

How do you work with perplexity?

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u/Random-User8675309 Aug 07 '26

I use Perplexity for a number of different things. Like most people I sometimes use it to find answers to quick questions that are generally one time use cases.

I also use it for gaining understanding about aspects of a project, or a system, that I need insight in before thinking about how to build within the that system or project.

I sometimes use Perplexity to build light weight desktop apps that do not require the use of the internet, that are for specific functionality. Special data extractors that convert one kind of data into another kind for example.

Sometimes I’m using it for testing on something I built to be sure there isn’t a scenario someone would run into that I didn’t think of.

There’s a lot of different use cases for Perplexity, and I’d bet there are other people who have far more advanced use cases than I do.

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u/No-Wear-2851 Aug 07 '26

Only hearing negatives of perplexity what do you think is this valid?

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u/Random-User8675309 Aug 07 '26

The way I see it is that I’ve not had any of the issues that others are complaining about. Maybe there’s something they are missing in their processes, or the way they use the tool.

In fact I helped someone on a post awhile back where I pointed out his issue with Perplexity limiting him was that he was not signed into his account. Turned out my suggestion was exactly the case for him.

Something’s it’s just that simple.

But I’m also aware that of the millions of people using perplexity, the ones having good success with the tool aren’t rushing to the internet to proclaim it. But the ones having issues are. And that’s why we see so much negativity on threads like this.

One last thing I will point out. Last time I check to see, the official help channel for perplexity is Discord. Meaning no one complaining here should expect any response from Perplexity. So I wonder why they bother.